Hat attachment.



W. DUCHRAU,

HAT- ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 13, 1917.

LQMAQG, Patented Jan. 22,1918.

INVENTO'R W|TNEssE s Z BY @www ATTO RN EY WILLIAM DUCHRAU,`OF VISALIA, CALIFORNIA.

HAT ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 22, 1918.

Application filed February 13, 1917. Serial No. 148,399.

To all u-hom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DUcHuAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Visalia, in the county of Tulare and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hat Attachments, `of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to apparel, and more especially to hats; and the object of the same is to produce a bandage or pad holder intended primarily for use on the head, and especially when the wearer has on. his hat.

I will not attempt to enumerate the uses to which this device may be put, but it is well known that most people are somewhat sensitive about wearing a bandage or pad on any part of the body which is in plain sight. Assuming. for sake of illustration, that the user is losing his hair, and the physician prescribes the use of a medicament rather volatile in nature, with instructions to put it on a pad and bind the pad over the hair throughout as many hours of the day as possible. lNe are not concerned with the man= ner in which the patient applies the pad at night, nor at any time excepting when he has on his hat; and the purpose of the present invention is to supply a pad holder which can be worn in the hat.

To this end the invention consists in the details of construction hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and shown in the drawings wherein Figure 1 is a plan view.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of this improved attachment before it is applied.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view through a hat of the Derby type, showing the wearers head in dotted lines, and the attachment in side or edge elevation as supported within the hat and lying upon the head.

Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of a portion of the strip.

My improved attachment comprises a body member or receptacle l, slightly dished or cupped but shown herein as nearly fiat and round; a closure or cover 2 for the receptacle, perforated throughout most of its area as at 3, preferably at as illustrated and round if the member l is round and held detaehably thereon by any suitable means; and a strip 4 as of whalebone, celluloid,or preferably aluminum, strung through two slits 5 in the bottom of the receptacle so that the latter is movably and adjustably mounted upon it, and so slitted as at 6 at its extremities as to produce interposed tongues 7 for a purpose yet to appear. I do not wish to be limited as to the size, shape, or material of the two members 1 and 2, nor indeed as to the same details with the respect to this strip excepting that the latter should be resilient and of a metal which is not easily rusted or otherwise contaminated by contact with the hair or flesh. Nor do I wish to be limited to the character of the fastening means between the two members 1 and 2. In the drawings I have shown these members to be removably and detachably connected as by paper clips 8. The medicament is applied to a pad P and the latter is laid in this improved bandage between the members 1 and 2, after which these members are connected with each` other. The strip having been strung through the slits in the bottom of the receptacle, the receptacle, pad, and the cover are held by the strip. At night this may be replaced by a leather strap and carried around under the chin so that the wearer can tie the attachment on his head at any point; but in the day time this strip is intended to be bowed upward within a Derby hat and the tongues 7 between the slits 6 at its extremities passed astride the hat band B as seen in Fig. 3. If the strip be light metal, it can be cut to exactly the proper length so that when thus supported on the hat band the cover member 2 of the attachment lies upon or very close to the hair or that part of the head which it is desired to treat with the volatile medicament upon the pad within the attachment. Of course, as soon as the wearer takes ou his hat the entire attachment is removed with it and he is not em barrassed by exposing a head Which is tied up.

I have also shown in the drawings how the strip 4 along its edges is to be cut at 11 wlth incisions producing tongues or tines which are bent up on either side of that between the slits 5, so as to prevent the member 1 from slipping along on the strip.

Vhat is claimed as ynew is The herein described hat attachment comprising a receptacle having parallel slits in its bottom, a perforated cover removably closing said receptacle, and a metallic strap passed through said slits and itself formed With incisions in its edges bent upon both sides of said slits to produce two tongues, the extremities of said strip having each a pair of slits with an interposed tongue for engagement with the upper edge of the hat band, as described.

In testimony whereof I afIiX my signature.

WILLIAM DUCHRAU.

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